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at the dining table, pretty much all the time, except the occasionally really light meals at the bar. we're not really TV people, and we talk A LOT (i know you would never have guessed that about me).
I tend to graze throughout the day, so my dinner isn't really dinner, it's more like a series of random snacks... and I typically watch TV and eat on the couch too, because FI's already gotten home and eaten 2-3 hours before me. On weekends we'll use our breakfast nook for a home-cooked meal, but weeknights are all about comfort AND convenience.
We eat at the dining room table, which is attached to the living room, so we normally have the tv on. Good question...I wonder what we will do when we have kids...
On the couch with the TV on...shame on us newlyweds! We for sure don't want to do that when we have kids, though.
we always eat together at the table. NO TV!!!!!!! Its important that I take time out to talk to my little girls, Cause we all no that they dont stay little for very long :)
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According to my husband, I use the dining room table as my personal "dumping ground," so we usually eat on the couch and watch a DVR'd program. Occasionaly, I will clear the table of clutter, and we will have a nice meal, often one we have cooked together, which we like to do.
As of now we eat on the couch while watching TV, we only have 700 sq ft, so our kitchen table now serves as a place to store stuff and we have no coffee table, so we eat on TV trays. We plan to change this when we move, and we've already discussed and made the decision that once we have kids there will be no TV at dinner.
We eat at the table, no tv, almost every night. We spend much of our time playing on our computers or watching tv, so it's nice to have that sit at the table and talk time, even if we eat in 15-20 minutes.
No TV, but right now it's so cold in the house that we have to eat dinner in the one warm room... the bed room :O During normal temperatures, we eat at the dining room table.
We don't have a tv or cable, so anything we watch is streamed from the internet. It leaves us with more time for knitting, talking, surfing the web and reading.
We eat dinner out our couch evernight and our coffee table serves as our dining table. We usually watch TV or a DVR'd program. We both work long hours and have very little down time so we like it this way. But, we don't have a dining room at this point...and once kinds come, I am sure things will change.
Yeah, we don't really have a dining room table so we crash on the couch. Sometimes we just sit and talk, other times I just want to space out, so we put on a DVD of a TV show so we don't have to pay much attention to plot and just enjoy our dinner and each other.
I don't like the idea of watching tv while eating dinner, I would probably like to have a table to sit and eat at, but I guess I wouldn't mind the TV on while at the dinner table. We're not big TVers, so I think it's more of the couch that gets me! Grrrr that damn comfortable couch!
We eat in front of the tv, every night, on the couch with the coffee table as the dining table. However, there is little alternative as we do not own a real table, because there is no room for it in our 650 sq-foot apartment. I really wish we had a real table. And chairs!
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TV, we watch our favorite tv series... but I know that when were gonna have Mini-flamingos the no tv rule will kick in.
I grew up with no tv while dinner, and I think that a good thing.
We eat dinner at our dining room table and talk. Usually the TV is on in the background but we are not really watching it. It is very rare that we sit in front of the TV and eat dinner we usually only do that if there is a football game on TV.
Our older apartment has sloped floors and as such it is rather uncomfortable sitting at our kitchen table (which is a shame since it's adorable). We sit on the couch and watch TV... we get home no earlier than 7pm, chat and catch up while making dinner and just generally chill out while eating. When we have a home with level floors, and a proper dining room (and hopefully a nicer couch!) we plan to change this habit. It works for now :)
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Since there are just the two of us, if we aren't talking constantly I go crazy with just the sound of us chewing. You know how sometimes people love to put those awkward scenes in movies? I think someone needs to make a movie about marriage and have the couple just eat a crunchy meal only saying a few words. Plus, we don't have subscription TV and so we just use the laptop on the dining room table to watch The Office.
Right now Mr. Avo is working a lot and so he usually doesn't get home until 8 and I can't wait that long to eat so we eat seperately. It's really sad!
Pengy, we are exactly the same way, every single night! We cook (or get takeout) and then settle in front of the TV. We eat on the coffee table (on the floor). We like it this way too, although I agree, we'll probably stop when we have kids and want to spend quality family time during dinner. But that won't be for a while...
I'm so relieved that we're not the only couple who eats in front of the TV every day! When we first got married, I swore we would eat at the dining table, with the TV off. But I gave up after awhile because it's *fun* to eat in front of the TV :) We'll probably go back to the dining table whenever we have kids.
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If it's just the two of us it depends on if we are already in the middle of a show if we turn off the tv or if we are talking to each other. But we live in an apt so the living room is right near the dining room table so we can see the tv when we eat at the table! Sometimes the same goes when his daughters are down...if they are in the middle of a show we won't turn it off...but if we all want to sit and talk during dinner we will turn the tv off.
ditto- wth the tv and dvr.
Occassionally we will sit the dining room table and have a nice dinner with all the fun stuff (music/candles)
I do have a no tv in the bedroom rule though. He's fighting me on it- i'm winning so far :)
@beeskness: I can't blame him for trying. 
If I don't have the TV on when I got to sleep I just can't fall asleep. Before we had the TV in our room I would stay in the family room watching it while he went to bed and sometimes I would fall asleep to it on the couch. He would wake up in the middle of the night and come get me off the couch. With the TV in the room, we at least mostly go to bed together now.
We have done the dinner on the couch watching the DVR for years now. We have TWO dinning tables, one in our kitchen and one in our dinning room that we only use when we have company. The kitchen table ends up collecting bills, our keys, lunch containers, I think someone else called it their dumping ground.
Now, my question is...how do I get us to start using the table? When he grew up his parents only did the formal table meal thing with no TV. I on the other hand has a single working mom so it was microwaved or quick fix meal and then plop in front of the TV. I would really like for us to acutally use our furniture! :-) Any ideas out there?
I'm so relieved we're not the only ones watching TV while eating! The only time the TV is not on is if we're having a nice meal (wine, candles, etc). I definitely want to change this when we have kids. An ideas?
When we moved into our condo I bought a nice barely used second hand oak table that would probably go for 3x what I paid for it. As another poster mentioned..it is my personal dumping ground for anything I come home from work with and the chairs seem to act as my coat closet. FI and I still talk about our day...just between commercials.
We don't have a lot in common with tv shows so dinner in front of the tv with our routine of the nightly news, Malcolm reruns and then Scrubs reruns is perfect and relaxing for us.
great question shanananna! I actually enjoy the TV thing too but eventually I think we should migrate to the dinner table... but scarily I'm not sure I would enjoy it! I know that sounds weird but Mr Peng gets home at around 8:30 PM and we're usually in bed by 11:30, so it almost seems like we can have dinner OR TV. Or... both :) But not either seperately!
You know Penguin I never thought of it that way. We too would be in that situation where it would either be dinner or TV and right now we do both at the same time! I like that you look at it in the positive light! Sometimes I think as women in relationships we start to get critical about the way we are and criticize ourselves for the silliest of things (or at least I know I do). So here’s to TV tray and coffee table dinning! Does anyone else find it difficult to only watch TV? I tend to have laptop in lap (or a craft project of some type) while watching TV and talking with Mr. Nanna at the same time. I seem to always have the TV on. Its like a contestant background noise!
Wow...I never figured I would be in the minority on this one. We eat at the table with the TV off. Only on rare occasions, like pizza night, do we eat in front of the tv.
We also don't have a TV on our second floor, which means no television in bed. We both made that a consious choice when we bought the house because we wanted to keep the bedrooms for bedroom activities only.
HAHA, great question! I'm even worse because we don't have a TV or a dining table anyway--- so we have to eat at the coffee table. But even worse is that we don't even eat at the same time! Our hours are different. Maybe once we have kids & all, we'll find no other quality time and force the eating at the same table and the same time thing. =)
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Growing up my house was strictly "No TV" during dinner. (Well, I guess I was never allowed to watch TV but even as I got older, in college, we'd still all sit as a family and eat). Now that I'm married, I'm surprised at how we sit on the couch and eat dinner... every night! Even if I cook a really nice meal, we put on our fave TV shows or a movie and eat dinner. We both like it this way, but maybe it's sort of weird that we don't shut the TV off. I suppose when we have kids, we'll probably migrate to the dinner table and the no TV policy, but I'm curious, how do you all eat your weeknight dinner? TV? Designated "Talk time"?
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